ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,833, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Methods and systems for random noise supression and filtering of acoustic clutter via autoregressive moving average filter" was invented by Jun Seob Shin (Medford, Mass.), Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon (Andover, Mass.) and Jean-luc Francois-Marie Robert (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for suppressing random noise, acoustic clutter, and/or reverberation clutter in ultrasound images are disclosed. An autoregressive moving average (ARMA) filtering technique that includes generating a predictive error filter a...